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  • 2022
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2022
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary When 21-year-old hippie-millionaire Michael Brody Jr. decided to give away his fortune to anyone in need, he ignited a psychedelic spiral of events. An instant celebrity, Brody was mobbed by the public, scrutinized by the press, and overwhelmed by the crush of personal letters responding to his extraordinary offer. Fifty years later, an ...

Directed By: Keith Maitland

Written By: Keith Maitland

  • 2022
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2022
  • Greenwich Entertainment
  • 1 h 37 m

Dear Mr. Brody

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Summary When 21-year-old hippie-millionaire Michael Brody Jr. decided to give away his fortune to anyone in need, he ignited a psychedelic spiral of events. An instant celebrity, Brody was mobbed by the public, scrutinized by the press, and overwhelmed by the crush of personal letters responding to his extraordinary offer. Fifty years later, an ...

Directed By: Keith Maitland

Written By: Keith Maitland

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80
Mar 4, 2022
Concurrently, as Maitland provides pockets of warmth and humanity in the legacies of a handful of letter-writers, he relays through archival footage and interviews the fallout for Brody himself when the sheer volume of outstretched hands and scrutinizing eyes became too much for him to handle.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 3, 2022
As with his 2016 documentary “Tower,” which recounted a 1966 mass shooting in Texas, director Maitland is most concerned with those whose stories get buried beneath the headlines.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 2, 2022
Through Glassman’s diligent and empathetic investigations, it becomes a film of documents, in which the aura of the letters—the worlds that they contain in their text and evoke in their sheer physical presence—generates overwhelming emotional power.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
78
Mar 7, 2022
What Maitland does do to separate his film from other docs that rely on that structure is weave dramatization into documentation, breathing life into the woeful stories and dashed dreams of men, women and children mailing their pleas for relief to Michael Brody Jr. at the edge of desperation.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
78
Feb 24, 2022
It is nothing less than a tapestry detailing the human desire for, yes, money, but more importantly, for connection.
By Josh Kupecki FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 4, 2022
Dear Mr. Brody does a fine job of showing how the financial chasm between rich and poor people is as wide and insurmountable today as it was in 1970.
By Odie Henderson FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 28, 2022
The film poignantly draws a straight line from the economic anxieties of the past straight to the present.
By Derek Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Alive Enterprises, Go-Valley, Pressman Film, Twelve21 Productions
Release Date Mar 4, 2022
Duration 1 h 37 m
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Website https://greenwichentertainment.com/film/dear-mr-brody/
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Awards

Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination

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